Immediately after it was reported that Apple's App Store was flooded with copy apps for the popular word guessing game 'Wordle', they disappeared all at once.



'Wordle' is a puzzle game where you guess the correct word from the hints shown in the entered letters. Wordle has shown a popularity overheating with the number of players reaching 300,000 in just two months, and there were many 'copy apps' that seemed to be popular, but those copy apps are It was reported that it was wiped out in the App Store.

Wordle Is a Love Story --The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html

Wordle download clones are flooding iOS stores --Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/wordle-clone-ios-mobile-gaming

Wordle creator overwhelmed by global success of hit puzzle | Puzzle games | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/11/wordle-creator-overwhelmed-by-global-success-of-hit-puzzle

Wordle clones yanked from Apple's App Store --Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/22879940/wordle-copycats-app-store-removal-clones-apple

Wordle is a puzzle game where you can guess hidden 5-letter words. The actual game screen looks like this, the words entered with the lower keyboard are automatically entered in the upper blank. This time, try typing 'CANDY'.



Then, as shown below, each character was displayed in gray / yellow / green color coding. The colors are 'gray letters are not included in the subject word', 'yellow letters are included in the subject word but are in the wrong position', and 'green letters are included in the subject word'. And the position is correct. ' In this example, C, N, and D are not included in the subject word, A is included in the subject word, but the position is wrong, and Y is confirmed at this position.



Follow these tips and guess the word of the subject within 6 times ... The content of this game is. The theme itself is changed once a day, and the next day you can challenge the next question regardless of whether it is a correct answer or an incorrect answer.



This Wordle is a free game published on a web page by software engineer Hosh Wardle, and there is no app version. However, due to the popularity of Wordle, which has reached 300,000 players in just two months after its release, a large number of copy games have appeared on the app store. Even though Wordle was released for free, sales of games that were just copied in their entirety continued to grow.

And on January 12, 2022 local time, the Wordle copy game that existed on the App Store, the official iOS app store, was wiped out. It is Apple that operates the app store that took this measure, but since Apple has not issued an official opinion on this case, it is unknown for what reason Apple decided to delete the copy game of Wordle. ..

Polygon, a game news site, pointed out that the cause was that the person who developed one of Wordle's copy games broke out on January 11th, boasting that 'the sales of the copy game he developed are strong'. doing.




As of January 13, 2022, there is no official app version of Wordle. You can play the browser version of Wordle for free from the following URL.

Wordle --A daily word game
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

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